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should use bad word in taat presence Ihe
other boys would tear him to pieces and kill
him on the spet.n That woman is best shell
tered who is sheltered by the Lord God AL
mighty, and You need never fear going any
where where God tells you to go.
It seems as if the Lord had ordained woman
for aa especial work in the solicitation OF
charities. Backed up by barrels in which
there is no -four, and by stoves in which
there is no fire. and by wardrobes in which
there are NO clothes, a woman is irresistible;
passing on her errand, God says to her: You
20 into that bank, or store, or shop, and ge$
the money" She goes in and gets it. The
man is hard listed, but she gets it. She
could not help but get it. 1t is decreed from
turning your back and pretending you don't
hear; you do hear. There is no need Of your
saying you are begged to- death. There is
no need Of your wasting your, time,
and you might as well submit first
as last. You had better right away
take down your check book, mark the
number Of the check, fill up the blank, sign
your name and hand it to her. There is no
need of wasting time Those poor children
on the back street have been hungry long
enough. That sicki man must have some
farina. That consumptive must have some
thing to ease his cough. Inject this delegate
Of relief society coming out Of the store Of
such hard listed man, and say: ibid you
get the moneys" "Of course" she says, II
got the money; that's what I went for. The
Lord told me to 60 in and get 1t, and he never
sends me on FOOLS errand"
Again, I have to tell you, that it Is a
woman's specific right to comfort under the
stress Of dire disaster. She is called the
weaker vessel, but all profane- as well as
sacred history attests that: when the crisis
comes she is better prepared; than man to
meet the emergency. Howoften you have
seen q woman who seemed to 'bea disciple OF
frivolity and indolence, who, under one stroke
of calamity, changed to a heroine: Oh, what
q great mistake those business, mem make
who never tell their business troubles to their
wivesr There comes some great loss' to THEM
store, or some Of their companions in busi-
ness play them a sad trick, and: they carry
the burden all alone. He is asked in the house,
hold again and again: What is, the nsatter}
but he believes it sort of Christian duty
to- keep all that trouble withinI his own
SOUL oh, your first duty was, to tell
your wife all about it. She perhaps might
not have disentangled your finances or ea-
tended your credit but she would have
helped you to bear misfortune. Youhave no
right to carry on one shoulder that which is
intended for two. There are business mon
here who know what mean. There came
O, crisis in your affairs YOU struggled
came day when you said: Here shall
have to STOP" and you called in your part
ners, and yon called in the most prominent
men IN your employ, and yousaid: I'VE have
got to stop" You left the store suddenly.
You coull hardly make up your mind to pass
through the street and over on the ferryboat.
You felt everybody would be looking at you
fastened home. You toldyonr wife all about
the affair. What did esayl Did she play
the butterfly? Did she talk about the silks and
the ribbons and the faShionsa No, She came
mp to the emergency. She quaIled not under
the stroke. She helped you to begin to plan
right away. She offered to- go out of the
comfortable house into, q smaller one, and
wear the old cloak another winter. She was
one who understood your affairs without
thought was thin, week woman's arm hold
ing you up, but while you looked at that arm
there came into the feeble muscles Of it the
strength of the eternal God. No chidlnS.
No fretting. No telling you about the beau
tiful house Of her father, from which you
brought her ten, twenty, or thirty years ago:
You said: "Well, this is the happiest day OF
my life am glad ! have gotten from under
my burden My wife don't care-I don't
care" At the moment you were utterly eS-
hausted, God sent q Deborah to meet
the host of the Amalekites and scatter them
like chaff over the plain. There are some
times women who sit reading sentimental
novels, and who wish that they had some
grand field in which to display their Chris
tian powers. Oh, what grand and glorious
things they could do if they only had an OPP
purtunity,. My sister, you need not walt y. @ for
any such time. A crisis will come in your
affairs There will be Thsrmopyle in
your own household, where God will tell you
to stand. There are scores and hundreds OF
households to-day where as much bravery ana
courage are demanded of woman as was ex-
hibited by Grace Darling, OF Marie Antoi-
nette, or Joan of Arc.
Again I remark, it is wOman's right to
bring to US the kingdom Of heaven. 1t IS
easier for woman to be Christian than 10 for
a man. Why? You say she is weaker. NO.
Her heart is more responsive to the p!eadings
of divine love- She is in vast majority. The
fact that she can more easily become Chris
tian, prove by the statement that three
fourths of the members Of the churches in all
Christendom are women. So God appoints
them to be the chief agencies for bringing
this world back to God. :! may stand
here and say the soul is immortal. There is
man who will refute it. I may stand here
and say we arc lost and undone without
Christ. There is man who will refute it.
NAV stand here and say there will be Judg-
ment Day after while. Yonder is some one
who will refute it, But Christian woman
in a Christian household, living in the
faith and the consistency of ChriSt's
Gospel-nobody can refute that. The
greatest sermons are not preached on cele-
brated platforms; they are preached with an
audience of two or three, and in private home
,, life, A consistent, consecrated Chrlstlan
, service is an unanswerable demonstration OF
Gods truth. A sailor came slipping down
the ratlines one night, as though something
! had happened, and the sailors cried: "What's
the matterF' He said: "My mothers prayers
haunt me like ghost" Home influences,
| consecrated, Christian home influences, are
the mightiest Of all influences upon the soul.
| There are men here to-day who have main
any better naturally than some other people,
| but because there were homo influences pray
ing for them ali the time. They got good
start. They were launched on the world
with the benedictions of Christian mother.
They may track Siberian SHOWS, they may
plunge in African jungles, they may fly to
the earth's cnl-they cannot go so far and SO
| fast but the prayers will keep up with them.
/ stand before women to-day who have the
eternal salvation Of their husbands in their
right hand On the marriage day you took
all oath before men and angels that you
would be faithful and kind until death did
you part, and believe you are going to keep
that oath; but after that parting at the door
Of the grave will it be an eternal scparationl
Is there any su:h thing as an immortal mar
riase, making the flowers that grow on the
| top of the sepulcher brighter than the gar
lands which at the marriage banquet fooled
the air with aroma! Yes; stand here as a
priest of the most high Col, to proclaim the
| join hands in the grace Of Christ. 0 woman,
! is your husbanl, your father, your son, away
/ from Cod! The Lord deman Is their redemp-
| ton at Your hands. There are praYers for